As more and more municipal governments across the country look to stretch their budgets even further,
Zipcar Inc. thinks it has a solution: FastFleet.
According to the
Boston Globe, the FastFleet service, to be announced today by ...
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including its commitment to solar power. The
Wall Street Journal reports that the Texas state legislature is poised to approve a $500 million, five-year rebate program to subsidize solar power installations throughout the ...
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Last month,
we speculated that water’s increasing scarcity might lead to a scenario where someday, water might be traded as a commodity on a futures market, akin to oil. In California, such a scenario seems to be playing ...
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Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better internal combustion engine, and you just may trigger a revolution in the automobile industry.
Engineers looking to improve the efficiency of the standard internal ...
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Megan Treacy of
EcoGeek reports that the city of Venice is planning to turn a nuisance—algae—into a renewable energy source.
Here’s how it’s going to work: the city will take two types of algae that clings to ships and ...
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If you build it, they will come. But if they won’t come, why build it?
That’s the trap
Northeast Utilities is trying to escape as it looks for federal funding to build 575 high-voltage car charging stations in Massachusetts ...
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A double shot of green—green technology, and $4.5 billion greenbacks—should prove a nice kick in the pants for the chip manufacturing industry, reports the
Wall Street Journal.
First, the green technology portion. Utility companies are now beginning to upgrade ...
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AT&T will purchase 8,000 vehicles that run on
compressed natural gas (CNG) for its fleet of installation and repair vans, and replace 7,100 passenger cars with hybrid models, reports the
Wall Street Journal. The ...
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With water in short supply in drought-stricken portions of China, Australia, America, and Kenya, its value is easily grasped, says the
Economist. Not only that, but water is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the manufacturing process ...
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Orders for the
Honda Insight, which is expected to go on sale in the United States during the spring of this year, are more than triple what the company targeted, reports the
Wall Street Journal, citing ...
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An international coalition of environmental groups called Obama2Canada Partners is urging US President Barack Obama not to shelter the
Alberta, Canada, oil sands from gritty greenhouse gas regulations, reports the
Calgary Herald.
“It’s a concern of ours ...
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Rapped last year twice by Great Britain’s
Advertising Standards Authority for exaggerating its green claims,
Shell is embarking on a new advertising campaign touting its efforts to use technology and innovation to fight global warming, reports ...
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There really is such a thing as a win-win proposition in business—going green. By going green, not only can businesses save the environment, they can save money as well . . . without having to wait for long-term payback from ...
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This week,
Google released data indicating its data centers are getting
greener.
Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations,
announced that the average power and cooling overhead in any Google-designed data center with an ...
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Do you have trouble finding green news and information? Look no further. Rolling Stones' Chuck Leavell has teamed up with advertising and public relations executive Joel Babbit to create mnn.com (Mother Nature Network), an environmental news website.
Fortune reported ...
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Every second of every day,
Google searches are answering people’s queries, whether those questions be who won the best actress award at the Golden Globes, or how much does and elephant weigh. Google serves up answers to those burning ...
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Tuesday
Motorola announced they will be releasing the first cell phone made of 100 percent recycled material, the Moto W233 Renew. The plastic housing is made of recycled water bottles and the device itself is recyclable. The mobile device ...
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Coming soon to a closet near you: advertisements on your clothes hangers. But that’s not all—those aren’t your ordinary, every-day clothes hangers at all, but something called an EcoHanger, make from 100% recycled paper and manufactured in the United States.
The ...
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Cell phone companies come out with new models of phones every few months. As consumers we always want the latest model with the most up-to-date features and technologies. Never mind the promotions wireless companies run to entice consumers to ...
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It may not be as sleek, angular, and aggressive as the concept prototype, but
GM unveiled today the production version of the Chevy Volt, which will be available to consumers in 2010.
According to GM, the concept car’s aggressive ...
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In a presentation Tuesday in San Francisco, Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs announced that the new iPod Nano would be Apple’s cleanest and most toxic free iPod to date. According to Jobs, the new Nanos use arsenic-free glass, are ...
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In a presentation Tuesday in San Francisco,
Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs announced that the
new iPod Nano would be Apple’s cleanest and most toxic free iPod to date. According to Jobs, the new Nanos ...
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In unveiling its new
Insight hybrid vehicle next month at the Paris International Auto Show, Honda appears to be taking direct aim at the
Toyota Prius, undeniably the market leader in small hybrid vehicles. According to ...
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Will Lady Liberty’s torch one day be lit by electricity produced by an ocean wind farm? If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has any say in the matter, that day might come sooner rather than later.
And that might not ...
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Many major US stores are looking to cut costs for high energy bills by tapping into the unused real estate above their properties. Attempting to cash in on government tax incentives, retail chains like Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, and Kohl's are ...
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There are still roughly 200 days to St. Patrick's Day, but Anheuser-Busch is focusing on a different kind of "green" beer: the environmental kind. In an
press release from July, Anheuser-Bush declared "More than five billion 12-oz. servings of ...
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Ever wonder what happens to all the energy generated in public spaces like gyms, train stations, or parks? Right now, with few exceptions, nothing happens to it, but that may change. Every movement we make generates small amounts of energy ...
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With gas prices increasing and the constant threat of global warming taking over, people are looking for new ways to be more fuel efficient with their automobiles. Enter the do-it-yourself electric car. Instead of buying gasoline for fuel, the owner ...
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A new
current.com video is making the rounds on the web, and it reveals shocking statistics about our water usage in developed countries. Europeans use an average of 200 liters of water each day, while those in the U.S. ...
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It's rather amusing to see how standards of beauty change over the years. In the 1950s, Chryslers came with bench seating spacious enough to be considered a mobile loveseat, and "getting under the hood" meant a mechanic could actually stand ...
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